On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 10:00:03PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:

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>
> Nevermind that my email address is incorrect as I had not yet created a
> $HOME/.reportbugrc on that computer.
>
> I did create $HOME/.reportbugrc and uncommented the line of "bts
> devuan", set my email, realname, and replyto variables and nothing else
> and I still get the:
>

>     Unable to connect to Devuan BTS; continue [y|N|?]?

>
> error message, even on this desktop. The BTS doesn't seem to be down as
> I can access it via the Web. Is there a hardcoded URL that could be
> incorrect?


Hi Nate,

thanks for your email. The issue is known. That string is saying you
that reportbug was unable to fetch existing relevant bugs from
bugs.devuan.org. The reason is that reportbug expects to find a SOAP
service running on bugs.devuan.org, that we have not activated
yet. The reason we have not activated it yet is that Devuan is an
opportunity to get rid of bloated stuff, and using a SOAP query to get
a list of bugs that can be retrieved without a SOAP request is bloat,
imho.

You can still ignore the message and carry on with the report, for the
moment.

TBH, I am quite astonished in seeing that reportbug itself has grown
to something like 10k LOC. This is A LOT, considering that we are
talking of a python script that has to prepare an email, and there are
around functioning posix kernels which are much smaller than that.

We are considering the possibility of introducing an SMTP relay, just
for the BTS, but most of the rest can and must be definitely
simplified.

We must retain the useful functionalities, avoiding to get absolutely
everything on board, since there is also a kitchen sink, a washing
machine, an maybe a crocodile or two in there...:)

In the same spirit, I am also reviewing devscripts. Any help with
that, even with testing, will be appreciated.

HND

KatolaZ

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